Tennessee telco NCTC to offer IPTV service with upgraded network

September 17, 2007 – Occam Networks has announced that North Central Telephone Cooperative (NCTC), a telco based in Tennessee, US has purchased components of its Broadband Loop Carrier system in order to provide advanced services including IPTV and other triple play services.

NCTC has purchased Occam’s BLC 6252-02 ADSL2Plus blade, and when the upgrades are complete the telco will manage a hybrid network with video over copper lines out to 5,000 feet, and active fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) to subscriber areas beyond this reach.

“To meet our customers’ growing need for advanced broadband services, we are implementing a significant upgrade to our network,” said Ronnie Williams, Vice President of Operations for NCTC. “In addition to ease of deployment and turn up, scalability and reliability, we researched solutions that would provide the best long term operating and cost effectiveness. Occam’s solution fit into our network seamlessly.”